Kalpana finds the story the data can't tell. As Founder and Strategic Lead of Kaliru Communications, she ensures that people remain at the centre of both programmes and the way their stories are told. Over the past two decades, she has worked across strategic communications, media, social and behaviour change, and community engagement. She began her career as a Television Producer, and directed human-interest stories and television shows for national and international broadcasters. A decade in senior corporate communications roles in Copenhagen and Chennai gave her first-hand experience of how large organisations think and communicate. Her subsequent work as an SBC consultant for UNICEF, FAO and USAID deepened her understanding of how communities make decisions, adapt behaviours and navigate change. It is this combination of institutional rigour and deep listening at the community level that shaped Kaliru. Kalpana is trained in Applied Behavioural Science from Ashoka University and in Film Production from the Film and Television Institute of India. She holds a Master's in Communication and Journalism from Madurai Kamaraj University, with certifications in SBCC from Ohio University and Strategic Communications for Social Impact from MICA. Across every engagement, she brings behavioural science and storytelling together as a single discipline rather than two separate skills. When she is not working, she is guest lecturing on communication and behaviour change, creating intricate Zentangle art, reading widely, or exploring a new place and its culture.